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media type="custom" key="7950608" When: January 28, 2011 Where: [|North Georgia RESA]

Roger Reid, author and television producer of the award-winning program //Discovering Alabama// Connie White, Lakeview Academy (Cyber Safety & Bullying) Judy Serritella, GaDOE Coordinator of Library Media Services
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=Roger Reid=

Roger Reid's [|website]

[|Berry College Longleaf Pine Project]

[|The Longleaf Alliance]

[|Teaching the Next Generation]

[|Ares Education]

[|US Space and Rocket Center Museum]

[|Alabama Paleontological Society]

[|Monograph]

[|Alabama Bound]



=Connie White=

The //Gainesville Times// featured Connie White in [|"Technology Delivers Homework--on a School Day?"] (2/14/10)

[|Bullying Prevention Toolkit] from the Georgia Department of Education including: [|Anti-bullying Policies] and much more...

=Judy Serritella=

Visit the [|Library Media Services] page on the GaDOE site.

=Learning and Teaching=

[|Evidence of Learning 2.0 by Mike Fischer] (A great collection of Web 2.0 tools and projects)

[|CRCT Content Descriptors for Reading Grades 1-8]

[|Plano ISD (TX) K-5 Library Integration Units] (Activities correlate with classroom units and include lesson plans and suggested reading)

Mini-research project example [|Frederick Douglass research.pdf]

=Web 2.0 Tools=

[|Learning Activities]. (Free tools for anything from animation creation software to search engines designed for children.)

[|Cell Poems] accepts poetry submissions of 140 characters or less.

Daring Librarian. Great ideas from a middle school librarian...tutorials, programming ideas, etc.

[|20 Social Networks for Lifelong Learners], a list compiled by Jeff Cobb on Mission to Learn.

[|Google Apps for Education] training and resources. Sign-up for the newsletter to stay in the loop on updates, student contests, live webinars, and application deadlines for the Google Teacher Academy.

=Copyright=

[|Copyright for Teachers and School Librarians] has FAQs and short, informative videos.

[|Chilling Effects] is a joint effort of several Ivy League schools to increase awareness of and to protect intellectual property laws and the First Amendment as people create and publish online.

Yes, YouTube is now offering what they call [|Copyright School]. Click through the tutorial for a Dilbert clip, interesting links to various copyright websites, and a simple "quiz" over the material in each section. The focus is on copyright with respect to posting YouTube videos.

=Interesting Digital Collections=

[|Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920] (Duke University). 9,000 items are easily searchable. [|AdViews] (Duke University). TV ads from 1950-1980 collected in the archives of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. [|Ad*Access] (Duke University). Print ads from American and Canadian sources dated from 1911 to 1950s.

=Other Good Things...=

From //The New York Times// book blog, [|"Twitter: Banned Books' New Best Friend"] (9/28/10)

[|Barnes & Noble Online Storytime] (aimed at grades K-3) offers a new video read-aloud each month. Select the Online Storytime from the Channel menu on the left, if needed. Tomie dePaola reads his book, Strega Nona, for the [|January selection].

[|Google Global Science Fair] (aimed at students ages 13-18). Information, teacher resources, and rules are available on the site.

The British Library is collecting samples of spoken English from around the world as a part of its "Evolving English" exhibition. [|Add your voice to the map] by reading a short children's book or a sample set of six words.

Check out the YouTube video [|"Librarians Do Gaga"] featuring our beloved Nancy Pearl, author of //Book Lust//.

[|"Can Blogging Make a Difference?"] asks a small study published by Campus Technology (1/12/11)

Did you know about [|YouTube's Video Editor]?

Use Wordle for book promotion activities. Can you guess the titles of our favorite books? (Answers follow)

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